GENESEO,
N.Y. – Robert Marshall Auler, an award-winning American concert pianist, will
perform works by a variety of composers during a concert Oct. 4 at the State
University of New York at Geneseo.The
event begins at 3 p.m. in the college’s Wadsworth Auditorium.Tickets are $5 for the general public, $3 for
students and will be sold only at the door.

Auler
has won numerous competitions, including first prize from the Society of
American Musicians.Following his
success in the Young Keyboard Artists’ Association piano competition, he was
invited to perform throughout Germany, France, the Netherlands and
Denmark.He also has performed in
Venezuela and Austria.

He also
has performed in concerts throughout the United States, including New York,
where he made his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2004.As a chamber musician, he has appeared with
the Ying Quarter and the MIRO Quartet and has performed with the Northwest
Florida Symphony, the ARC Ensemble in Ohio, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony in
Illinois and numerous other regional orchestras.

Auler is
entering his seventh season as piano professor at SUNY Oswego.He is a keen advocate of new music, having
worked with William Bolcom, Steve Reich, Leslie Bassett, Martin Bresnick,
Rudolf Haken, Frederic Rzewski, Jonathan Pieslak and Carter Pann.The Geneseo concert will include works by
Pieslak, Haken, and Pann in addition to compositions by George Gershwin, Samuel
Barber and Nikolai Kapustin.